Life History
1707 |
Born in Fredricksburg, Spotsylvania, Viginia.1 |
28th Oct 1740 |
Married Mildred GREGORY in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.4,5,6 |
before 1778 |
Died.2 |
Notes
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"Roger Gregory. Son of Richard Gregory (i). Born about 1690; died prior to 1732. Married Mildred, daughter of Lawrence Washington. On the 17th of May, 1736, Roger Gregory and Mildred, his wife, deeded the Mt. Vernon estate to Augustine Washington. They were then residents of Stratton Major Parish, King and Queen County. The witnesses were William Aylett, John Washington, and Lawrence Butler.
Issue: Frances, who married, September 3, 1736, Francis Thornton (see Thornton Excursus); Mildred, who married, October 28, 1740, John Thornton, and
Elizabeth, who married four times:
first, April 29, 1743, Henry Willis, son of Colonel Henry Willis (who had married her mother);
second, Reuben Thornton;
third, Doctor Thomas Walker, the Explorer, and
fourth, Colonel Alcock, of the British Army.
Mildred Gregory, the elder, was the godmother of General George Washington."
-- Peyton Neale Clarke, Old King William homes and families; an account of some of the old homesteads and families of King William County, Virginia, from its earliest settlement (Louisville: John P Morton And Company, 1897), p 58, https://archive.org/stream/oldkingwilliamho00clar/oldkingwilliamho00c
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Augustine, second son of Lawrence Washington and Mildred Warner; married for his second wife, Mary Ball; their oldest son was George Washington (President of the United States); their only daughter, Betty Washington, was the second wife of Colonel Fielding Lewis, by whom she had a numerous progeny, notable in themselves and their descendants.
Mildred, the only daughter of Lawrence Washington and Mildred Warner, married, first, Roger Gregory, by whom she had three daughters, Mildred, Frances, and Elizabeth, who married three brothers, Colonel John, Colonel Francis, and Reuben Thornton; she married, secondly, Colonel Henry Willis, the founder of Fredericksburg, by whom she had a son, Colonel Lewis Willis, and a daughter, Anne, who married Duff Green.
-- Peyton Neale Clarke, Old King William homes and families; an account of some of the old homesteads and families of King William County, Virginia, from its earliest settlement (Louisville: John P Morton And Company, 1897), p 75, https://archive.org/stream/oldkingwilliamho00clar/oldkingwilliamho00c
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Family Data Collection - Births
John Thornton
Father Francis Thornton
Mother Mary Taliaferro
Birth 1707 Fredricksburg, Spotsylvania County, Viginia, USA
Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850
Mildred Gregory
John Thornton
Marriage 28 Oct 1740 Spotsylvania, Virginia
Virginia, Biographical Encyclopedia
Colonel John Thornton
Residence Virginia, USA
Comments: was son of Francis Thornton, of "Fall Hill," Spottsylvania county. He lived first in Spottsylvania and afterwards in Caroline. In 1742 he was justice of the peace of Spottsylvania in 1751; was sheriff, and December 6, 1753, was elected a member of the house of burgesses for Spottsylvania to supply the place of William Waller, who became coroner; senior colonel of the Spottsylvania militia in 1756. He died before 1778. IV--Burgesses and Other Prominent Persons
American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)
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